Local Bands From Your Youth

[BigFish]

I found a cd I had burned awhile back from an "LP" remember them? Scratches and all! Anyway...the album is called "The Journey Is Worth The Reward" by local Quincy band called "The Drive"! I followed them pretty religiously back in my clubbing, hard drinking days of the 80's! It is a great album...all the songs are great and the Gibson Les-Paul played by Jamie Walker the lead player and singer is just the best local guitar I had ever heard. They never made it big and I was always surprised by that...probably poorly managed though they did play on the Tonight Show once. The band broke up and a few members went on to start the band "The Swinging Steaks"....anyone ever see/hear these bands?

Any local favorites you can recall from your youth?

[Squid kids Dad]

I saw the Monkeys in Yarmouth once.. Does that count...Hey,hey...

[The Dad Fisherman]

I remember the Cars playing a free concert in Barry park in Lynn. I saw Matt "Guitar" Murphy (from the Blues Brothers) play his last gig there before going to play w/ them

Locals when I was growing up were The Stompers, Private Lightning, Revolver, The Jon Butcher Axis, New England, The Fools...saw them all, except The Fools....used to love the local music back then.

[CAL]

Larry, we used to go see The Drive at Nostalgia all the time. For some reason they even had a hard time getting airplay on Boston stations

I just dug through my closet......I have that album on vinyl

Two of my brother in laws were in a band called Bad Larry. Ever hear of them?

[Skitterpop]

Hopedale town hall.... $1.50 1971 just prior to Steve Tyler joining them and other band member revisions.

Then Lake Pearl.... $2.00 1972.... its all kinda hazy still

[afterhours]

used to follow a band called Rizzz all over ri and ma. it got nuts on a regular basis. wonder we survived and did'nt get locked up,'cept for once at the ledge.

[Raider Ronnie]

I saw Boston before they made it big!
Saw the Fools lots of times
A freind of mine saw Billy Joel in Boston LONG before anybody knew who he was!!! saw him at the paradice club on Comm ave that holds less than 300 people!

[Raven]

my interest was cut short....when going to a battle of the bands at age 16
with a bunch of buddies...in a Braintree Hockey rink....
i met a very pretty girl who decided to make me her instant boy friend. i thought. Unfortunately her recently Dumped ANGRY
ex- boyfriend was there looking for her with all of his friends too.

the pretty girl and i had gone from behind the hockey safety glass to the main floor where the battle broke out and in self defense i managed to knock a few down
until i was over powered like 7 to 1....then i got madder than the HULK and wanted to see if i could actually rip the trouble makers head off of his neck.
being endlessly kicked in the back head and face.

Soon, i saw a striped pair of pants (cops) breaking up the fight as i choked this little creep ...in a headlock....on the floor...and my friends who all were unable to help, met me in the bathroom where i was dressing my wounds and rinsing off all the blood... then the "Gang" came in saying.... and i'll never forget this line...." lets make him bleed" with the sound of switch blades in unison all popping open.... then the cops all rushed in ..Thank god....and threw us all outside....without any medical assistance i found myself alone outside a rear door barely able to see...with my eyes swelling shut...i began pounding the crap out of one gang member who finally fled.

the pain was ok.... i healed .but my mother's cries of sorrow were heart breaking when she saw her battered almost un -recognizable son come in the door. That year we moved to the beach and hunting and fishing was all i cared about....and began turning plugs 36 years ago.

[Slingah]

I clubbed hard from 15 (fake I.D. remember those)to early-mid twenties
It went from punk/new wave to heavy metal....I had a blast.....I wish I could remember all of it.
Mission of Burma, Del Fuegos, The Neihborhoods, Real Kids, Human Sexual Response, The Lyres, The Outlets
The Stompers. Fools, Jon Butcher, Til Tuesday, Treat her Right, Scruffy the Cat
Bang, Shout, the Dream(Extreme), Steel Assasian

the Drive was a chick band....I saw them a zillion times...........................to pick up chicks

[MartinD18]

Big Bo - Roomful, definitely! Back in the day with Duke Robbilaird.... there are still a few of original members but when they went more toward frat house rock I lost interest. Duke is STILL the man, as far as I'm concerned. Pure class, not a bazillion notes per second like some, but every note is the right one. Saw Roomful dozens of times in the early - mid 70s, they actually played *in the rain, under a tiny tent* at my sister in laws high school graduation party on the beach at Esker Point in Groton, CT! Also saw them many times at the Knickerbocker in Westerly - what a place - and man, those RI kids who grew up with them knew how to swing dance waaaay before it got popular again. Many of them were so good you didn't even want to get out on the dance floor. Groups like Voodoo Daddy are a pale imitation.
Also, a singer/songwriter named Randy Burns from New Haven. He was great and had a really fine acoustic band and could have been as big as J. Taylor or J. Browne or any of them but the bottle did him in. sad.